Hello, my name is JEM. I think I sometimes manage to get to what I mean...I've tried to do that here...

Smarmy. Annoying. Sentimental. That was JEM. But hell, we performed him. He answered every question on the forum. (He was one of the only users sweet enough to pour his little heart out to people he didn't even know) So JEM.

You might ask why Al (pictured above) is in the audience. Well, I could tell you that we were breaking that big bad fourth wall. We were "interacting" with the audience members. We were interrogating the scopephillic nature of theater. Well. What I will tell you: that fourth wall is there for a reason. Al is in the audience because we're morons. We thought starting the show in the audience (Al hid in a "fort" that she made with a white sheet) would get them involved in the show. We thought it would be (oh Christ) INTERESTING. Yeah. Whatever. Poor Al. She just about died up there. As if we weren’t nervous enough… We forced ourselves to stare directly into the eye of every disinterested audience member in the theater. Yeah. It did wonders for the show’s energy level.

So back to JEM. Well, I don’t really have much to say. He was just a character. We used kitchy silent film spoofs to characterize his super-saturated sentimentality. Just look at the clips:

:: JEM at the Doctor

:: JEM daydreaming